Beautiful Girlhood compiled by Debra Maffett
Beautiful Girlhood by Mabel Hale was written in 1922. Those years forming the transition period between childhood and womanhood are filled with wonderful interest and attractiveness, for there is nothing of more beauty and grace than the budding and blossoming of girlhood. But the young feet that travel this way are often fearful and uncertain, or willful and bold. Each and all have need of guidance; they need a helping hand along the way. This book is sent forth with a sincere desire to be a blessing. In a timeless way, this classic book offers practical, biblical wisdom on the issues every girl faces, from beauty to attitudes to relationships.
Beautiful Girlhood by Mabel Hale was written in 1922. Those years forming the transition period between childhood and womanhood are filled with wonderful interest and attractiveness, for there is nothing of more beauty and grace than the budding and blossoming of girlhood. But the young feet that travel this way are often fearful and uncertain, or willful and bold. Each and all have need of guidance; they need a helping hand along the way. This book is sent forth with a sincere desire to be a blessing. In a timeless way, this classic book offers practical, biblical wisdom on the issues every girl faces, from beauty to attitudes to relationships.
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IDEALS<br />
"A wife of noble character who can find?<br />
She is worth far more than rubies!" Proverbs 31:10<br />
What is your aim in life, or, rather, what would you have your life to be, if<br />
you could have the choosing? What kind of life looks the best and most<br />
desirable to you? What are your ideals?<br />
An ideal is a mental conception of perfection. It is a picture in the mind of<br />
things as we would like to have them. Every girl has her ideals, and in one<br />
way or another is working toward them. She may be careless and hardly<br />
conscious of what she is doing — yet certainly she is following after her<br />
ideal. She has in her mind, the picture of the woman she wants to be.<br />
No girl can rise higher than her ideals. The ideal one has in mind, is the<br />
limit of perfection to that person. It is impossible to attain to higher things<br />
than we strive for; and few, oh, so few, even reach their ideals. So it is<br />
imperative that a girl set before her good and pure ideals, that she set her<br />
mark high. It is better to aim at the impossible — than to be content with<br />
the inferior.<br />
Every girl is a woman in the making. Sometime she will stand in a<br />
woman's place and take a woman s responsibilities. And now, while she is a<br />
girl, she is forming the character that shall be hers through womanhood.<br />
Her ideals are shaping her life.<br />
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